The 100 best bars and pubs in London: the best pubs in London by area

London pubs come in all shapes and sizes, from experts in real ale and craft beer, to cider devotees and scruffy locals with charm by the barrel-load.

Below is our guide to London’s very best pubs – places where well-kept booze, warm welcomes and tasty pub snacks are guaranteed. Browse well, lace up your sturdiest drinking boots and we’ll see you at the bar.

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Great list. One of my favourites is still the White Horse in Soho, more for sentimentality than actual classiness, it had more of a used rustic feel.

There are loads of pubs in London but I find just a few really stand out. Hard to find lately when I go in to town for the odd night. Craft Beer Pubs seem to be the more interesting route these days, veering away from the regular brewery owned pubs. I've found a couple but there are London Craft Beer tours you can go on that will introduce you two a few good ones and with a nice crowd, save you wandering lost in the city looking for the good places: http://www.alternativeldn.com/london_craft_beer/london_pub_tours.php

Its more of a 'few pubs ive been too and liked' than an in depth no stone left unturned best boozer in london piece, some shockingly Tripadvisorish ones on here, along with couple of no-brainers (Prospect/catandmutton) and why push overpriced garage brewed local beers all the time,. they taste like beard juice.

Good to see 3 of my locals listed: Cutty Sark Tavern, Old Brewery and Hare & Billet. I would have added the Pelton Arms to that myself. Hyper-local as it is just across the road from my house; I can see it from my back door and can usually hear what band is playing from the back garden.

David - I think the writer's geographical knowledge is lacking. The Rugby Tavern is in either Holborn or Bloomsbury depending on how you look at it, but definitely not Clerkenwell. The same goes for the Yorkshire Grey. IMO Clerkenwell ends at Grey's Inn Road - i.e. where EC1 becomes WC1. Sorry to nitpick, but as a local these mistakes irk me.

Don't know anything about this pub, but it's stretching a point to say it's in Bloomsbury / Holborn - this one is a stone's throw from Piccadilly Circus. I suspect the pub you are recommending is the Queen's Head in Acton St, which is at the northern side of Bloomsbury, not far from King's Cross.